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Google Turns the Tables on Government Monitors

Simon Constable talks with Scott Austin on Google warning users if their accounts have been the targets of "state-sponsored attackers," and Lucy Marcus joins the program to survey the lessons of Facebook's IPO. Photo: AP.

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... I ... the tables on government wanted to have a new security what it's like this we believe state sponsored attack this may be attempting to compromise your account all computer ... let's say maybe you've been hacked by governments ... welcome to Digits I'm Simon Constable Scott Austin joins me on this that tells all about this nominates two fighting back rising against the diabolical governments around the well you get this isn't the norm in the US but imagine why didn't hear personally know genome this case now ... an essential is seen warning that the government is watching you ... the sky was happy to Hamilton's in May I can say that that they will from now on this is an EU launched yesterday to his newly launched ... it is targeting governments that obviously are trying to censor or are you a peek into to what ... their ... their ... citizens are are doing ... I'm you know the diagonal didn't specify which governments but to ... be the obvious target is China there are that a lot of ... you know right and so with that with China's censors ... I and and probably some countries in the Middle East the various ... had ... awesome examples of users and in China Hong Kong ... he's doing in Thailand seat this warning ... today so I would imagine we'll see some across across them in the middle the Middle East to sell the tomatoes that are now going on right is that they will tell us but that they they have some sort of technology that they can identify which to ... users are being compromised in that case the PC this morning ... that means you should probably had some superb extra layer of security tidying of housewares Sorrento uses of these was the decor lives that that that ... specifically but if I wake up tomorrow I'm going along on the Duvall ... was ... for ... the third of all the goodness in every case where an intraday low and that's what the what what what what do ... you ... know I think he probably reported to give all ... night and then you'd also ... if you try to change or your password is to to make a little bit ... he's harder to compromise ... um ... you know beyond that there's not much power ... predate him to you ... it depends on which is an energy million I wouldn't say that ... the suddenly ... although I'm sure I'll be bored to death um well I I I I mean you know I'm just I'm just laminate says Should you inform your company should you time she still clings to the ring up the CII and the advisors ... what what what I'm not sure that so you get to the well yes and you know they do will necessarily can see Hunter percent a government agencies that they suspect ... that this is happening there they're finding that there's ... been some for incoming ... message so what it was someone's China some of this of every and they haven't reacted yes ... and and they didn't react to the warning ... get out last week ... at a two goal of this measures forty mechanism that can also put into their ... search site for Chinese users when they type in certain I was in line ... with those last week so ... this the way for two oldest tell its users pay the stitches ... to disruptions in service are not our problems ... it's the government's that better doing this is out of our control so it is it's also true whole ratcheting up so the war against against China why and and and so to say you know what Wigan a stand our ground on seen in some ways yet seen in the US government is Khona pushing ... a lot of these internet sites to take a stand and do something there's a ... the ... bill in Congress right now let's look around that ... could require companies to to try to ... get a certain measures ... to to combat against ... you than censoring always other ... things that the government tried ... to the top ten seconds is is helping to get its groove back in aam and sounds of it with a weekly show the chair last week were to go was used in its market share in China for instance ... I drastically because of all the disruptions in the service ... yes I think it is that it could be the Boss tunnel has a market like ours II when sentenced in office at nine five maybe I shall backed by DRAM much thought to Austin The will Street gentle on the beest dot com ... the question is it your company IPO already find out from an Xbox ... has to be surprise that you might not be subtle about that after the break ... going public is an important milestone ... in our history ... is that ... our mission isn't to be a public company ... the mission is to make the world more open and connected ... that was some odds aka but that saying his company was sucked in business to be a public company just as it went public ... question is is you'll be ready to go public welcome back to Digits are Lucy Marcus side of his career with depth ... knows a lot about Calvinism of the IPO ready or not so Bausone son was Facebook thank you ... think they're a lot of things that they could come a moment that there is ... nothing to condemn a lot better ... and ... some things that are in pretty well um ... you ... looking at from on board perspective as a as a board director and someone who thinks about and write spell points ... I mean when things that they ... could've done better is actually ... had people on the board ... with a little bit more practice of going public ... I'm also people around them male and a practice going public and also ... him better structures for understanding what it means ... once the public going forward ... it is is is it a good thing when you're CEO on the day you go public to say you know interested in reading being a public company it is is cool with the shuffle play hard to get ... I think when even my choice but to ... okay so what is that you know how how people got some experience what is the end of the difference between public and private ... you know the difference what is the difference for someone like Mark Zuckerberg well I mean he he he goes from being able to control his and firemen to a great deal of an amazing kids ... he was basically living in a bubble ... and everyone around ten you know ... talks to him knows him it's a super Silicom Valley world that something's going on what the sudden you're ... out there and there are areas that you can control the vagaries of the Markit and ... here you can think you're pretty smart but actually ... the little things that go on from technology to investors to the people being fickle to people decide they don't like you to ... the all kinds of things all the sudden all the things that you control ... you're no longer and ... so what what should companies be asking themselves of the people actually ask themselves before they go about whether ready to come public ... I think I'm from and from what perspective you need to look at your board again and say ok up until now as a private company ... the most part we've had venture capitalists on the board ... which had a couple to win over the sector and so on on this for a true off Facebook absolutely I mean it's it's you know it when you look around the board table beside the fact that there are no wind and ... you know it's actually to be symptomatic of something larger which is that a lot of diversity of any kind to them ... there are depressed is just devastated of race gender diversity of Penney and planning so that you want people who disagree with you on the board is like that I don't understand the pond shops ... at ... this and if you if you can have those conversations in the boardroom and say hello tumbling have to have this conversation sometime to ... support him as a safe space to ... suspend all ideas and to put stuff out there and have the whitest people sitting on the table ... and and giving you an idea of what had happened and and will that line ... if you don't have those people on the table and you don't have those tough discussions that ... go into those discussions outside ... and Union of public and in with bullet that like ice especially with the I mean I also know you know ... he's decided to take of a very strong position has a lot of control ... with control with power ... comes responsibility and so one of the things that a lot of people are concerned about is ... what can ... we not hearing anything cuz I I the the a lot to me what what goals are dominant ... on so the request is a great group of look like to have a good fourth I D say it was really what what ... well I mean ... I can it's not just about names on paper ... it's also about ... how focused they are how oh how much they're ... they're working with the team and ... I mean ... I kept wondering Where's the board to win ... and they were violating the SCC quiet period and when they were ... still having trouble with their on it and so on and and is at ... hand what looks like gold plated group but not ... really into ... one of things is that investors are now looking at companies that are to go public ... with ... blue tinted glasses you know that they're seeing it ... and there's been there to start looking and saying OK this is what happened with Facebook I'm going to be holding companies to a higher standard and hopefully one hopes to greater scrutiny ... greatest Rodney was shot ... thank you Grandma jaws a pleasant Asean markets of ... governance during the adventure catalyst and a lot of other things while adding to take the guesswork out of retirement planning special KSL Katy Brett has some answers for you after the break ... what that LaMotte Digits I'm Simon Qassam on how do you take the guesswork out every time and planning will special K ... itself Katy Brett has found an answer and it's on a website and she joins us now from Washington DC thank you Brian much for being nagged Katie ... you've been such a tender age of been looking into overtime and so what did you London and I'm on what some of the old fashioned way of reading the book ... I well I for one thing most people don't wanna talk about their retirement savings for a long time yet again shop ... maybe they start for a one K are some of their rock IRA or something ... and that decades later they think about what their retirement savings for doing ever told for so long ... not to tax every time you know were were taught from an early age not worry about that ... and actually people my age that we don't think about retirement and I certainly don wanna mess around with our savings and retirement ... money as though this is a site that furry ... an ... alternative to going to I'm expensive financial analyst or advisor to charge about one percent in an annual fee for it ... and if the lousy supply cannot be are different house that you have in you can see all that money and with being lazy and they give you suggestions that so there you can optimize your spending according to index funds ... and they get a lot of that that I'm academia I and my case and that book that she could read if you don't agree with their ... suggestions in Tennessee where they ... came to this conclusion so ... I was pretty fascinating actually ... how easy did you find month's news was that was I mean is something that is easy enough light so when the seniors ... yet in Indiana ... I mean am ... not ... a very nice that made our average people not people with a financial background so ... he really just walk through a Wizard apps apps and plug in your information ... and it's the highest level of security at the peak level security seem to have to worry about that ... you ... know when when they did I know I was interesting not because we've we've we are in this organization sensible understand why it's a lot about financial stuff um how do thing people who reasonably financially savvy feel about that ... well obviously this isn't the right to it for every hurt and many hours of really smart guy gets you former Micra soft engineers that sounded ... an and financial experts in their own right fell ... and they operate if the suggestion a pianist a candy on ... sale ... but if you want to you can see where your might be might make more money and Zach if it doesn't hurt and is their investments the irony made Sears actually giving any money on the side effect of FX your brokerage sites actually move money ... there's really not going to live here you can find out more information and they're not ... one of the services of the minutes of calm and you know that it may be to teasers of some ideas that they think about what he thing ... yes I'm it's it's really a budgeting lab found it very basic and it does a great shot at her in the past and I really like it if it personally ... it's Marc predated the bags again and that their site is actually need to get money ... from the advent of suggestions they may see like they might suggest that ... a lower or higher interest on your savings or something like that ... our credit card with lower fees this website future advisers ... have absolutely no kickbacks no commissions they don't make anything on the website rate now at all ... the way they make money or hopes to make money in the offering a premium account and a lot of that sometime before the end of the year ... basically like having someone I actually take care of your funds at without you having to do anything it teaches that it didn't take the the the the fifth if you do the the the soup of the thing you know the super service and pay the fee the court decide whatever it is ... then ... that I might sound like a little but if you've got a lot of money on the management you know them not to be a heck of alot of money maybe you could go with that ... of ... that tape of a free pass a ... common situation Wanguo does Mama how much money you just let the under Fox ... I in REITs make for some people and yet this is optional of cards ... I think that some people could see that that the nice option because they don't have the time I they don't wanna go and ... to meet with the mind ... Anthony Meles that I can tell by fair I'd first then they offer other things that I wish I knew like life insurance when you really don't want that maybe just one ... a little help with your is everything ... to consult with cleaner that thank very much special KSL Katy bar I check out that story on the vs Datacom and on all things the old all come ... well Electronic Arts want to play video games ... anyway ... on the delegate joining us now from the EU three event in Los Angeles' to tells all about this sounds an eye on the stand ... out from salsa to my with a couple of new versions of games tells about that ... what were ... they were sure doctors I met up the pressure that was on the two other patients are making to their exports properties to other people soccer title ... and that the NFL which of all while being urged actually interact with the themes ... of on on other to fight it so what you may have ... it'll be on your Xbox three sixty players ... on your craft auction to get around to get it with the game on tablets but a fairly complete the game the same when she would have the Xbox but he might flee or ... tried typing an adventure the thing that is ... part of a broader ... trend of where we get to the publisher wanted go which are making gains at the twenty four seven service ... you can play yet when reading time no matter what what why or ... why should you ... be so when when is this guy once the final mission home ... DNA electronic house what with the sort of a ... boy to it kind of a lady wearing a tightening of the dead of real life that they can be in their higher future on ... R and D costs to like in leakage Rex Market Wall ... you know there's there's ... there's ideas for the devices there's also will not him on ... on your tablet sparkled so if the publishers ... of our tube emails platform ... aam and then they are the problem is their future so they wanted to have their properties ... aam that some big emerging out ... Jim played no matter what device you're using and that we think of fibro a bit and in the game ... and not just limited to people who haven't you know I scoffed old home and why the Arctic to get back up ... so ... that one thing I know about Bob ... Janssen screen sizes is that things look different they look different on a TV screen ... says ... of the lot so this isn't a ... house phone aam ... is indeed the center of the can it change in the wave of the King looks on each of those devices because I can imagine adjusting really irritating to play some games on a small device only changing the month of the devices ... I you know they can change but not right now we don't doubt it would surely leave the scene in the same way every body ... you know what that is the route right now is you get from the bond that divide it so ... I think of it on your on your commute home you could be setting up ... your player treat everything that when we get home and turn our carport and actually play it ... um you know there I think eventually they will love to get the point where the beer more ... about purity with that the fight so they can ... know and for being the option to better warn you I don't have much of the technology it's quite there yet that that serve the direction they want to go into ... of the white now the gap the considerable limitations ... for each platform sure to go ... in the back story actually for ... science and tend to think this is done I know you'd like to get my mind a lot of people says without mentioning you do thing people ... see the productivity plummet because of the snowflake anxiety fell to ... the top of the morning place and and down on the subway play units of the dam of debt so I continue flying ... I do know walk when effect ... I you know always ... forget that ... think of the year they have to watch for on you know didn't you that they need to overturn the laptop reason for putting on a few key ... and yet know what to ... do that ... making it work no wonder what's breaking the champagne ... um you know so you know it yet um ... like that ... but but said more than a lunch break on it but that you know they're they're really want mauled plain teams ... all over the place ... of the big game publishers to ... happen is the big car pulled ... out one of the in and actually one of the laptop ... say thank you Brian much to handle ... because I know you would do anything as the follicle is that playtime Small Mitchell thank Alan at the age of three advantage in Los Angeles' thank you very much of ... that said that stitches before we let you go aam is a great story in today's paper about how sad Silicon Valley is how these holdings in um I'm absolute pro but the one that is going to be real ... has a little piece of video viewing milk and one and it's ... in Silicon Valley these days it's getting tougher to tell the difference between a joke ... and the next big thing ... to resemble his blessing ... according ... to him ... 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